Monday, September 30, 2013

The Celestial Tournament

Pet Battles... I wasn't convinced at Blizzcon. About four months after launch I had a month of frenzied "collect all of them". I've beaten all trainers and all legendary pets. Heck, I even did them all in one day for [The Longest Day]. I haven't been doing a lot of pet battles (in my opinion), but I've done a fair share of them, now and then. When Timeless Isle arrived in patch 5.4, I fairly quickly beat Little Tommy Newcomer's Lil' Oondasta. But when I entered The Celestial Tournament all my pets died miserably... :'( I tried last week, and after a lot of work I beat all the three trainers. I gave one of the celestials one try, got wiped out SO FAST, and just left and logged out. I don't have a lot of patience when it comes to "start all over"... I've read a couple of blogs and Wowhead-comments since then, and leveled some core pets up while leveling my alt. I want to especially mention Cymre's Celestial Knock Out for motivating me to try again. :)
I wasn't done leveling the pets I had decided on, but last night I couldn't get on the server that my current leveling alt, Shunbi, is on. So I logged my main, which conveniently was on Timeless Isle, and I entered The Celestial Tournament... This week was three new trainers to beat. I spent HOURS deciding on strategies for the fights. I wanted to give up several times, especially after having some bad RNG on one of the trainers after I had beaten him once. (I left to heal my pets while making strategies for the first three trainers.) But finally I managed to be last woman standing in the tournament. I was so happy! :) And then the quest giver gave me two extra coins, so that I could buy little Zao! I didn't know about that in beforehand, and I was really happy that my hard work had paid off with a pet! The cutest of them all. :)

You have no idea how long I had to wait for my cloak to proc for this picture

Niuzao is slightly bigger than Zao

I will list what pets I've used here, but if you are looking for guides, I would recommend visiting other sites, for example Cymre's Celestial Knock Out.

Both weeks I've entered the tournament I've met one trainer that I really struggled with. Last week it was Taran Zhu and this week it was Dr. Ion Goldbloom. If you too find one you struggle with, I suggest you start with that fight, so all your other work isn't destroyed if you need to leave between tries to heal your pets.